Beware of the Horrors – Sammy Scott
Horror collection
Step outside and explore what might be waiting just around the next corner.
These stories beckon you to sit down, get comfortable, and step into a world where everything you thought you knew can change in the blink of an eye. Go ahead. Turn the page.
A jaded, “seen-it-all” horror enthusiast learns that there are still chills to be found in modern cinema.
A couple quickly regrets setting foot inside a mysterious vintage arcade.
A young man comes to understand the curse behind knowing his future.
Twins with a psychic connection find themselves trapped inside a completely dark room.
A simple prank spirals out of control for four teenagers with a successful YouTube channel.
An introverted husband’s reality is flipped upside down during a Murder Mystery dinner party.
An influencer pays the price for testing an app that allows the user to skip forward in reality.
This Darkness Caged Inside Us – Zach Constable
Supernatural horror
A wave of addiction and bloodshed consumes the remaining residents of White Deer, Maryland. The only thing more devastating than the opioids flowing through the streets are the brutalized corpses left behind.
For Michael, a kindhearted journalism student, something about White Deer entices him. Perhaps it’s his instinctive need to rescue others, or maybe he hopes to process his beloved cousin’s sudden overdose. He navigates a web of secrets, only to make a harrowing discovery: something is stalking and killing the townsfolk of White Deer. Only addicts are safe from its wrath. And Michael may be its next target.
Befriending an unlikely group – a bubbly waitress hiding a tortured past, an addict mother and her teenage son, a hardened drug dealer with a reputation for violence – Michael struggles for survival while trying to stop the carnage.
Yet the most destructive demon of all may be hidden within everyone around him, including himself.
Dracula Millenium – Christian Francis
Vampire horror movie novelization
When a crew of thieves cracks open a secret vault in London, they don’t find riches; they unleash Dracula.
Cursed with eternal life, the Prince of Darkness walks free for the first time in centuries, and the new millennium is about to drown in blood.
Hunting across continents, Dracula leaves a trail of carnage as he closes in on Mary Van Helsing, the one woman bound to his dark legacy. From ancient crypts to high-rise towers and the shadowed cathedrals of New Orleans, Mary must face the darkness within herself to stop him, before the modern age becomes his eternal reign.
Echoes From Below: Dead Pressure – Angel R. Sánchez
Survival horror
Twelve years ago, a catastrophic breach left a classified military research facility abandoned beneath the ocean.
Now, a group of scavengers is breaking into its sealed corridors, chasing a score that could change their lives. For some, it means fortune. For others, what they stand to gain could mean the difference between life and death.
Deep beneath the ocean, something has been waiting in the darkness. As the mission unravels, survival becomes a battle against crushing pressure, hidden secrets, and creatures that should never have been released. Some things were buried for a reason.
The Horror in the Lamplights – Christopher Michael
Historical, Supernatural horror – Book 2 of Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII
Romania, 1942. OSS operative Robert Danforth parachutes behind Axis lines to investigate a lead obtained through the horrors he experienced in the Arabian desert. What he finds is the Ordinul Negru, an unholy alliance between SS occultists and the surviving fanatics of an exiled Romanian order.
In a remote Carpathian valley, children begin disappearing from the villages. Every clue leads to Castelul Umbrelor, an ancient fortress that appears abandoned by day. But at midnight, screams rise from beneath its walls.
At the center of it all is Elena, a young artist imprisoned within her ancestral manor. She has no memory of painting the nightmares filling her canvases. Yet, each morning, another part is completed. Each month, the SS carries a finished painting to the castle.
As Beltane approaches, SS kill teams close in, the resistance begins to fracture, and the terror Danforth carried out of the desert starts whispering to him from the shadows.
The last painting is almost complete. The gate is already beginning to open. An interrupted blood rite from World War I is reaching its climax, and what crosses through will recognize neither nations nor armies as its master.
The Nazis came seeking a weapon.
What answers them is hungry.
Phantom Limb – Brian Everson
Psychological horror
After destroying the headquarters of an underground amputation cult, a burned and battered Kline finds himself in a holding cell.
When he enlists the help of an ex-cop to commute his prison sentence, Kline inadvertently tangles with a schism of the very cult he sought to destroy.
The Porcelain Sisters – Daryl Gregory
Dark fantasy horror
A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant, and literally porcelain, sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses.
Ruth Winslow is trying to save up enough money to finish college while looking after her sister, Isabel, who happens to be a haunted doll. When an accident severely damages Isabel’s porcelain body, the sisters have to find the only woman who can fix her, the fearsome witch known as La Fabricante, the Dollmaker.
The big problem? The Dollmaker also heads the French witch mafia called Le Clan des Sorcières. The sisters head to Marseille, where they take on Chiffon, a red-headed, unkillable assassin; a collection of angry, haunted dolls; plus a pair of demons, one a cigarette-smoking crow, the other a black cat, and their human familiars.
Along the way, the sisters learn that they’ve been lied to their entire lives. Their mother wasn’t just a homemaker who died in a car accident, she was a legendary enforcer in the Le Clan.
While Ruth has to come out of her shell and deal with her own latent powers, Isabel has to grow up in a body that can’t grow. Together they’ll have to outwit and outfight everyone to claim their birthright.
Public Access Afterworld – Jane Schoenbrun
Supernatural horror
A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell.
Find the receiver. Make it real.
At 5:35 p.m. on September 3, 1988, Dallas weatherman Ray “Can You Say Sunshine” Davino makes passing reference to Public Access Afterworld during a rambling monologue, right before he puts a gun to his head on live television and pulls the trigger.
On June 12, 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin’s basement to watch TV’s analog-to-digital transition. But in the static that follows, Erin witnesses surreal broadcasts from a pirate TV network called Public Access Afterworld, and their lives are changed forever.
Seventeen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill’s bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But then a young streamer begins to crop up in her feed calling out to Public Access Afterworld.
But what is Public Access Afterworld?
Savage Lake – Nick Medina
Cabin in the woods horror
A mother and son travel to a dilapidated cabin in the woods that haunts more than just her memories.
Nell Marin swore she would never return to the place where part of her died.
The passing of her estranged father, however, leaves her with no choice but to take her teenage son, Oscar, back to the run-down family cabin on Torchlight Lake, where horrific memories linger. The two will fix the place up, sell it, and ensure Nell never has to return to that dreaded lake again.
But when the roads, which pass through Native land, are barricaded by the local Tribe, the quick trip turns into weeks. Oscar, a horror movie buff, knows this is exactly how it starts. As the long summer days drag on, unsettling things begin to occur: screams ring out over the water and a mysterious figure watches the cabin from the trees at night. Most disturbing of all, his mother is becoming less and less herself.
As the strange events lead Oscar to uncover the secrets Nell has shielded him from, he is forced to confront a reality that is far more frightening than movie monsters. He must uncover answers to the questions that stole so much from his mother…before the horror that traumatized Nell drags him under as well.
What Rough Beast – Mindy McGinnis
Psychological horror
Nothing stays buried forever…
Ava learned the hard way that speaking up means being shut out. A social outcast, she finds comfort in her job at a wildlife rehabilitation center, surrounded by the injured, the damaged, and the lame. Best of all, the work distracts her from the night that changed her life, and the boy she holds responsible for it.
Micah knows he’s not a good guy. His past is littered with mistakes, accidents, and things he’d rather forget. But feeling guilty and accepting punishment are two different things. He doesn’t know which is worse: the weight of what he’s done or the growing feeling that it’s all about to be dragged into the light.
Hailey will do whatever it takes to rise up from her life of abject poverty. The biggest weapon she has is her looks, and she’ll use it to get what she wants: the richest boy in town. When Ava’s claims threaten their relationship, Hailey knows she must silence her, maybe forever.
When Ava unknowingly awakens an entity that has been biding its time underground, the three teens will be brought together on a night when something wants to be born and only a death will balance the scales.
You’re No Better – Andrew Joseph White
Coming of age horror
A profound portrait of a struggling teen trying to convince the world, and himself, that he’s better than the serial killer who raised him.
Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself.
Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father’s final victim, the only one who was never identified, hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he’ll finally prove he’s better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan’s childhood, that he wasn’t just a witness to his father’s brutality, he was an accomplice. And if he doesn’t let them help with his investigation? They’ll tell everyone.
Forced to confront his past, Morgan’s ugly but carefully controlled world unravels. The film crew is manipulative. His mother’s temper spirals into malice, then violence. And Morgan and Felicity may be more tightly intertwined than either of them can stomach.
Zombi 2 – Christian Francis
Zombie horror movie novelization
A deserted yacht drifts into New York Harbor. For Ann Bowles, it is the first clue in the disappearance of her father. Joined by journalist Peter West, she follows the trail to the remote Antillean island of Matul, where the rotting dead are coming back to life, and are hungry for flesh.
Christian Francis returns to Elisa Briganti’s original screenplay for this official novelization of Lucio Fulci’s notorious 1979 horror film (released in the UK as Zombie Flesh Eaters, and the US as Zombie), restoring and expanding material altered, omitted, or never realized on screen. Characters are rebuilt from their original descriptions, familiar moments take unexpected turns, and new threads push the nightmare beyond the boundaries of the film.
You know the film. Now discover the Zombi 2 you haven’t seen.
